Yandex Drone Strikes Hit Crawlers, Not Bot Networks

Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex data centers knocked out its web crawlers, software that scans the web for search, rather than Russian influence operations. Tracker antibot4navalny found bot traffic held steady, and Kremlin-aligned accounts kept spreading false claims about EU sanctions. I would caution that equating these outages with weakened disinformation overstates the impact.